outspread
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At the top is an enamelled dove with outspread wings, which represents the Holy Ghost.
From Reuters ● May 5, 2023
We all wish we could still run into the outspread arms of the father we lost.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022
When the dough has doubled in size, about an hour or so, push it down with outspread fingers, making dimples in the dough.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
Thus a skydiver falls more slowly with outspread limbs than when they are in a pike position—head first with hands at their side and legs together.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
But the wings are outspread, capturing the sense of flight.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
In four years he has made Brooklyn's farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built.
From Time Magazine Archive
I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.
From Time Magazine Archive
But we must prevent the outspreading of the institution, because neither the Constitution nor the general welfare requires us to extend it.
From Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John George Nicolay
It produced in Bates unthinking irritation that Nature should quietly go on outspreading her evening magnificence in face of his discomfort.
From What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall
The wheels were supplemented by aeroplanes, resembling huge outspreading wings, inclined at an angle, so that their forward rush upon the air supported the ship.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw
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